5 “Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 Yet surely aMy words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? “So they returned and said: b‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”
Vision of the Horses
7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet:
8 I saw by night, and behold, aa man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him werebhorses: red, sorrel, and white.
9 Then I said, a“My lord, what are these?” So the angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what they are.”
10 And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, a“These aretheones whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth.”
11aSo they answered the Angel of the Lord, who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked to and fro throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth is1 resting quietly.”
The Lord Will Comfort Zion
12 Then the Angel of the Lord answered and said, “O Lord of hosts, ahow long will You not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which You were angry bthese seventy years?”
13 And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, withagood and comforting words.
14 So the angel who spoke with me said to me,1 “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “I am azealous for Jerusalem And for Zion with great1 zeal.
15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease; For aI was a little angry, And they helped—but with evil intent.”
16 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord: a“I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy; My bhouse cshall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts, “And da surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
17 “Again proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “My cities shall again1 spread out through prosperity; aThe Lord will again comfort Zion, And bwill again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”
Vision of the Horns
18 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were four ahorns.
19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” So he answered me, a“These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month - This revelation was given about three months after the former, and two months after they had recommenced the building of the temple.
Sebat - Answers to a part of our February. See Haggai 2:18.
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